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Historical Event on 10/21/1947
The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/20/1991 | Simultaneous polls in Tamil Nadu. |
| 10/24/1890 | Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta. |
| 2/16/1923 | Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani, famous author, poet and playwright, passed away. |
| 12/24/1984 | Eigth General Elections of India began . |
| 4/14/1948 | Law about Atomic Energy implemented in India. |
| 2/7/1856 | Wajid Ali Shah, ruler of Oudh, was asked to abdicate by the British Resident on grounds of chronic misrule. |
| 11/14/1959 | Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone. |
| 9/4/1987 | Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan. |
| 10/24/1605 | Jahangir became the fourth Emperor of Mughal Empire at Agra. |
| 8/30/1983 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B) launched. This was also a multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite, which served for more than its design life of seven years. It was launched by a US Space Shuttle. |
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